<h4>Chapter 837: Chapter 778: Practical Combat</h4><h4></h4>


    Jiang Yuan, Cui Qishan, and Liu Cheng, along with five stray dogs, shared arge pot of dog food and then dispersed, each satisfied with their meal.


    Before leaving, the stray dogs nodded to Jiang Yuan and sniffed around Cui Qishan and Liu Cheng before contentedly leaving the central flowerbed of the residentialplex to roam around their familiar haunts.


    "You Jiang family folks have quite a bit ofpassion," said Cui Qishan as he let out a contented belch. "Your dad likes cooking for people, and you like cooking for dogs."


    "I only do it asionally, as a way of fulfilling a wish," responded Jiang Yuan. He had received many legacies, but such a strong one as cooking dog food only urred twice.


    Once it was from the prostitute Chen Manli and another time from Professor Zhou Xiangyang.


    To some extent, the legacy from Chen Manli was both heavy and passionate. So, like Chen Manli, Jiang Yuan would cook dog food when in a bad mood. The act of feeding stray dogs was a form of extreme self-identification as part of humanity, something that a police officer sometimes particrly needed.


    However, Jiang Yuan’s frequency of feeding the dogs was too low and too random. To the stray dogs, Jiang Yuan might have seemed more like a Santa us-type myth.


    The next day.


    Huang Qiangmin showed up at the doorstep of Jiang Yuan’s home, carrying fried pancake wraps, dough sticks, and tofu pudding from the entrance of Ningtai First Middle School.


    Both Jiang Yuan and Jiang Fuzhen were somewhat surprised.


    Although it wasmon for goods to be sent over from Ningtai, it was the first time they had seen such a thoughtful gesture as the one from Huang Qiangmin.


    Huang Qiangmin smiled proudly; this move was something he had learned from a certain entrepreneur.


    "I happened to being to Beijing, so I brought some things along," Huang Qiangmin said with a light smile. Entering the room, he added, "You guys eat while it’s hot; just make some tea for me. I have some workter."


    "What work?" asked Jiang Yuan as he ced the various foods on the table before grabbing a fried pancake wrap and tofu pudding for himself, quite excited.


    In his heart, Huang Qiangmin thought, my main job in making this trip was to appease you.


    Of course, Huang Qiangmin did have actual work to attend to.


    Sitting next to Jiang Yuan and seeing that Jiang Fuzhen was happily taking his tofu pudding and soy milk to the dining room, Huang Qiangmin smiled apologetically and then said, "I’vee to see a real-world operation of a surveince vehicle they have here."


    "A Beijing Bureau surveince vehicle?" asked Jiang Yuan as he scooped up a mouthful of spicy tofu pudding, its smooth and tender texture coupled withplex seasoning instantly awakening the taste buds.


    Foods suitable for breakfast were like the taste champions of a ce. Ordinary people usually chose only one or two, maybe three varieties for breakfast. To be able to enjoy eating the same one or two dishes over and over and still find them delicious, ces high demands on the food.


    From this perspective, morning porridge or rice noodle rolls in Guangzhou, spicy soup in Henan, rice noodles in Guangxi and Hunan, and the fried pancake wraps in Tianjin are regions with very characteristic foods, carrying the banner of tradition. Beijing with its fermented mung bean juice seems to have given up on treatment somewhat.


    Huang Qiangmin slurped his tea and said, "Yes, they’ve gotten a new batch of surveince vehicles. They say we can have one for a price of 7 million."


    "That expensive?" eximed Jiang Yuan in surprise.


    "It’s probably worth five or six million at least. The stuff is good, but indeed, it’s also very expensive," said Huang Qiangmin, extending an invitation to Jiang Yuan. "Come take a look with me; if it’s not worth it, we won’t take it."


    "Okay," agreed Jiang Yuan, quickening his pace of eating.


    Criminal Police Brigade.


    Beijing Bureau technologists had already arrived and were exchanging thoughts with the technologists from Ningtai County in a corner.


    It’s said that technologists worldwide are one family. Theymunicate very well with one another and have their own ways of interacting. As for how exactly theymunicate, Jiang Yuan didn’t know the details.


    Even for ordinary police officers, the Technical Surveince Unit is like a ck box: they can input questions and receive results, but the specific process within is unknowable.


    Jiang Yuan wasn’t actually curious and just waited patiently.


    Meanwhile, Wu Junhao and Liu Wenkai had also arrived from Beijing. The technical surveince vehicle worth several million yuan was unheard of not just in Ningtai County, but also in Qinghe City. Naturally, everyone was eager to see it.


    "Come on over, Commissioner Huang, Captain Jiang is here too. Have a seat, and take a look at the case that Old An has picked out for you," said Tao Lu, signaling the start of the formal exchange.


    After Tao Lu’s introduction, An Xibing from the equipment department brought over some case files. Heid them in front of Huang Qiangmin, Jiang Yuan, and the others, smiling as he said, "The case I’ve picked for today was just filed three days ago. Commissioner Huang wanted to do a demonstration, so we asked our colleagues from technical and criminal investigation to select a case. This is the one we chose, and we began the investigation on the same day..."


    An Xibing’s main purpose was to rify that there was no deception involved, although some pre-operation was inevitable. Once he made that clear, he asked the case officer toe over and exin.


    The case officer was an officer from the Zhengguang Bureau. He saluted and presented his report formally:


    "...This case involves a home burry... In one night, the perpetrator burrized six households, all in the same apartment building in the sameplex. The stolen items include over forty thousand yuan in cash, eighteen pieces of gold and silver jewelry, three mobile phones, one iPad, one pair of women’s silk stockings, four pairs of men’s sneakers—all collector’s Air Jordan models—and fifty-seven figurines, valued at 80,000 yuan."


    The officer paused after exining the case in one breath and looked at Jiang Yuan and Tao Lu before continuing, "The crime scene investigation has beenpleted. The criminal entered the victims’ homes by climbing the drainage pipes and essing their balconies. Considering that six households were burrized on the same night and the quantity of the stolen items, we suspect the culprit is a habitual offender. Therefore, we first considered the possibility of a series of linked crimes..."


    After the case officer finished outlining the situation and progress of the investigation, An Xibing stood up with a smile and said, "We basically have a clear picture of this case. Next, we can start discussing the direction of the investigation."


    Everyoneughed and stayed silent, waiting for An Xibing to show off his skills. Only Jiang Yuan watched more seriously.


    His nature was always cautious. On the other hand, as the reputation of "Ningtai Jiang Yuan" grew, Jiang Yuan himself became increasingly mindful of his own influence.


    This was also something that Huang Qiangmin had admonished him about numerous times. If, like others, he casually passed the case files along, and peopleter said, "This is evidence reviewed by Jiang Yuan," how would he exin that?


    An Xibing obviously didn’t expect Jiang Yuan to read through such a lengthy case file, so he invited another officer to join them.


    "I’m from Technical Surveince," said the neer with a chuckle. "Let me discuss our solution."


    He nced around at everyone, then at Jiang Yuan, before continuing, "In typical burry cases, we often rely on footprints, fingerprints, and the like to solve the case, or even better, surveince footage. This case had footprints but no fingerprints or surveince, so we chose to prioritize locking onto mobile phone signals."


    The technical investigator continued: "We initially searched for mobile phone signals but did not find any suitable suspects. We suspect that the criminal nned ahead and turned off his phone beforemitting the crime. Consequently, we chose to reverse engineer the process and listed mobile users who turned off their phones after 10 p.m. and turned them back on after 4 a.m. as suspects."


    "In the base station range of theplex on the day of the incident, there were two individuals who disyed this behavior. One had a criminal record, and the other was a high school student who secretly got up to y on his phone at night. Home surveince proved he was still doing homework at 12:30 a.m., and thus was ruled out."


    "With that, we focus on the male with a prior record for a detailed investigation. We found he was highly suspect of the crime. Next, we need to ascertain his exact location. Traditionally, we have many options, but today, we’ll choose to deploy the technical surveince vehicle to directly find the location of the mobile phone used by this man. Let’s board the vehicle."


    After concluding, the technical investigator beckoned everyone onto a Coaster bus while he himself got into a van styled like a technical surveince vehicle. Along with a police car, the three-vehicle convoy set off.


    On the Coaster, Wu Junhao eximed, "They’re pretty swift and efficient."


    "Well, of course. Deploying the technical surveince vehicle even once can cost some ces up to ten thousand yuan," Huang Qiangmin remarked enviously.


    "Ten thousand yuan for what?" Wu Junhao didn’t quite understand.


    "Some ces, like X location, have bought technical surveince vehicles, and they find them expensive. If police from other arease over and need to use the technical surveince vehicle, they charge ten thousand per deployment; Beijing’s counties have to pay up without exception," Huang Qiangmin exined with a sigh, "I don’t have the nerve to do that. Even if I had a technical surveince vehicle, I wouldn’t dare charge. At most, I’d lend it out to people from other areas."


    "They’re definitely charging too much; that’s the price of six chickens right there," Liu Wenkai shook his head.


    "The technical surveince vehicle is loaned out for a day," Huang Qiangmin’s gaze flicked towards Liu Wenkai as if to say: What nonsense are you spouting?


    Liu Wenkai defensively replied, "I’m talking about renting it for the whole night too."